In honor of the Seattle Seahawks and the Denver Broncos making it to Super Bowl XLVIII, we are giving away LEGO Bow Ties to 2 fans of each team as part of our Super Bowl LEGO Bow Tie Contest. If you win, you will be one of the few fans in the country that has a LEGO Bow Tie of your team. Here are the LEGO bow ties we are giving away.

Be as creative as you want. We will pick the two most creative photos for each team as the winner and announce it Super Bowl Sunday after the game. So, whether your team wins or loses on Sunday, you could still win.

Questions:

When is the deadline to enter?

Photos can be submitted up until the kick-off of the Super Bowl.

When and how will you pick the winner?

We will pick the winner at the end of the Super Bowl. We will choose the most creative, off-the-wall fan photo that incorporates LEGO. If it is a tie between more than two winners, we may give another LEGO Bow Tie away.

What if my team is not in the Super Bowl? Can I still participate?

Absolutely! We will be giving one additional LEGO Bow Tie to a fan of a team not in the Super Bowl.

Our Play-Well Summer Photo Contest has finally come to an end. We had so much fun seeing all the creative entries submitted this summer. All of the entries were great in their own right. We asked you to vote for your favorites and here are the results.

After our successful photo contest last summer, The Brick Stanley Project, we have decided to do a new summer photo contest this year. For this contest, we are asking our families to take a picture of the words PLAY WELL, spelled out in a creative, unique, slightly ridiculous way. We see “Play Well” as not only our name, but also our philosophy on how our organization works. When our engineering students are playing well in class, they are solving problems, exploring the world, and learning about themselves through play. When our staff is playing well, they are having more fun than they have had at any other job. So, we wanted to spread the message of playing well and here is how we are going to do it:

Here are some examples of photos already submitted:

Carter & Rogan Schmidbauer, Phoenix, AZ

Brandon Jones, Kirkland, WA

Santa Barbara, CA

Lester Mendaros, Pleasanton, CA

Ben Pfister, Ventura, CA

When you have taken your photo, you can submit it in the following ways:

You can even submit more than one photo if you’d like. We will gather all the photos from the contest and in August, we will have our Play-Well Families vote for their favorite photo. The top three winners could win a Engineering with LEGO® Birthday Party, a LEGO® Technic Set, or LEGO® Bow Tie. All photos will be included in our upcoming video, so everyone wins. Voting ends at 11:59 PM on Labor Day, September 2nd. We hope you enter the contest. If you have any questions, email Jeff at jeff@play-well.org.

Happy Mother’s Day! We wanted to tell all the awesome moms we know, thank you for what you do. To celebrate the day, we decided to have a Play-Well Mother’s Day LEGO Raffle. Your family could win a Play-Well LEGO Engineering Birthday Party, a LEGO Iron Man Set, or a LEGO Bow Tie. Click the link below to participate in this free raffle:

Who is Play-Well TEKnologies?
Play-Well TEKnologies provides project-based programs designed to teach the principles and methods of engineering to children, ages 5 – 14, using LEGO®. Play-Well has been growing future engineers since 1997.

We had entries from all over: Italy, Patagonia, New York, Arizona, Connecticut, California, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Wisconsin, Washington, Thailand, and New York. With so many great entries, we couldn’t decide on just one, so we picked these Brick Stanley Project Participants as the winners (listed in no particular order):

Like the image that you think is awesome and the entry with the most likes by May 1st will receive the grand prize (Play-Well LEGO Engineering Party). We have removed names of the entries, so you can decide just on the image.

Thanks so much for participating in the Brick Stanley Project. It was so much fun, we will do it again soon!

Great backstory about this picture. “Our son designed the tiger using LEGO Digital Designer, then we ordered it through LEGO because we didn’t have nearly enough orange bricks to make it ourselves. LDD is a very cool and professional-looking service, they even make a pictographic step-by-step construction guide for your creation.”